Dave Sherohman wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:08:45PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> > in /usr/share/vim/vim56/filetype.vim i found the line
> > au BufNewFile,BufRead 
> > snd.\d\+,.letter,.letter.\d\+,.followup,.article,.article.\d\+,pico.\d\+,mutt-*-\d\+,ae\d\+.txt
> >  set ft=mail
> >
> > the part that works for new mutt email is
> >
> >       mutt-*-\d\+
> >
> > but we need to add a pattern to match filenames like
> >
> >       /tmp/muttlEoKra
> >       /tmp/muttDSveKd
> >
> > what's the syntax for these vim patterns? (-*- looks like glob,
> > but then we have \d for digit (i presume) and \+ for... well, i
> > don't know.)
> 
> Looks like a bastard child of regexes and shell globs.  I suspect that you
> could probably match both styles of mutt filename in a single expression with
> something along the lines of
> 
> mutt-\?*-\?\d\+
> 
> but it would probably be easier to just add a new pattern of
> 
> mutt\d\+

i found a better way, based on other tips i got
from debian-user folk:

        # ~/.muttrc
        set editor="vim -c 'set ft=mail tw=64'"

works every time.

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